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:previous: That's a fun photo, but it shows Long Beach. It looks like the south side of E. Ocean Blvd., opposite the end of Molino Avenue,
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I was just wondering...:shrug:...when these eBay photos being sold are discovered on NLA to have wrong information, or...someone on NLA discovers the locations on photos that aren't identified...does anyone contact the eBay sellers and provide them with the accurate information? |
Flyingwedge, thanks for figuring out the location of the 1964 slide.
That gap you see just past the movie making man..... https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/gyOcG7.jpg EBAY turns out to be an old gun battery from WWII. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/Y6d2Yj.jpg google_earth ARCS IF ILLUMINATION https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/evzn8N.jpg militarymuseum note the 'Santa Monica' beach to the right if the #2 battery. (this is probably why the seller described the slide as Santa Monica) |
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Thanks for the data on this location Flyingwedge and Noir Noir. Two or three blocks south of here on Almont at Wilshire is the AMPAS location and if I feel like walking to a screening at the Goldwyn Theatre there, I always go down Almont Dr. and next time I do I have some historical information to ponder at this location, which I do recall. (When Almont hits Burton Way, there is a median you can't cross by car, but you can easily "jay"walk across it if you want to.) |
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Thanks, MstimC, I hope to see that episode somehow, especially with the "emphasis on geography and [...] showing where things happened." I like your story, too. Are there any photos or stories of your Dad in L.A. in WWII? Did he visit any attractions or the Hollywood Canteen or anything? Did he marry your Mom in L.A.? I'm not sure you meant he was stationed or visited here or lived in L.A. and enlisted. Solomon Islands! I was just this weekend watching an episode of Black Sheep Squadron that took place there, specifically Rabaul. |
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I don't mind being corrected. https://imageshack.com/a/img923/9063/W0TGMR.gif ME after reading Hoss' Post Quote:
Bixby Tunnel scene from BODY DOUBLE [c.1984] https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/3MTjwu.jpg ITSFILMEDHERE Was that little building with the tree painted on it a restroom or something else? I ask because there's some sort of archaic electrical infrastructure (for lack of a better word) on the roof. Recent Pic: The tunnel appears to be closed off now. (and the little building lost it's tree :() https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...924/v1Rv9y.jpg *there's something else majorly different. Can you spot it? _ |
. This week we had a notice on our gate, which is required by law, from 20th Century Fox informing us that they would be filming in the neighborhood, and they gave the address on Westbourne Dr. I just assumed it would be at one of the apartment buildings along the street as it's all residential there. (They never say "what" they're filming, it just said "scenes from a television project" and that they'd be filming with both interior and exterior scenes.)Well, I was wrong about it being an apartment building. I was at the computer and looked up the filming address that was given which turns out to be a building of somewhat historical note to the city and is right near Santa Monica Blvd. It is this building at 903 Westbourne Drive: http://www.wehopreservation.org/wp-c...WH-570x570.jpgWeHo Preservation This image was taken several years ago. The following are two photos from a post by BifRayRock. The first is a current GSV photo of the building on the corner of 8701 Santa Monica Blvd. at Westbourne Drive. The building in the above photo is under/behind the tree to the right of that building. The second photo is the 8701 Santa Monica Bldg. in the distance and you can see that the 903 Westbourne building isn't there yet. Quote:
The following info is from the West Hollywood Historic Cultural Resources site: Link HERE. The building located at 903 N. Westbourne Drive is illustrative of the style known as Spanish Colonial Revival and exhibits features including red clay tile roofs, eaves and wrought iron grill work. In addition the building features decoratively carved rafter and double end tiles, and a large recessed circular arched entrance surrounded by heavy molding. This style reflected the neighborhoods surrounding the building in the 1920's and 1930's. The door is multi-paned glass with a multi-pane transom. A single wrought iron lamp is centered above the entrance. The building was the site of a County Library from 1929 to 1941 and is one of the few remaining institutional buildings from the early period of West Hollywood. There's a nice shot of the exterior, in a pastel pink, at this link: www.weho.org/Home/ShowImage?id=1037 _____ Since mid February of 2013, the current tenant is: V Wine, aka V Wine Room. The "Film West Hollywood" website has some information about V Wine's design theme which adhere's to the building's history: The theme is a 1930’s library, as the space was the first library for West Hollywood from 1929 – 1941. Towering bookcases are used for wine and merchandise storage as well as a card catalog system (think the dewy decimal system for wine), which guides guests to find the appropriate wine for purchase. Laid back music and a casual quiet library setting appeals to those people looking for an alternative to a loud bar. Lite bites of food are served to compliment the wine and encourage people to linger and enjoy the space. https://www.filmwesthollywood.com/fi...s/v-wine-room/ The current front entrance: https://media.timeout.com/images/100.../422/image.jpgTime Out Magazine https://s3-media1.fl.yelpcdn.com/bph...XadhdMLA/o.jpgYELP The key feature in the room is a marble bar in a V shape with a live olive tree growing out of the center. https://media.timeout.com/images/100.../472/image.jpgFilm West Hollywood Library theme: https://s3-media4.fl.yelpcdn.com/bph...8y1K6Qfg/o.jpgYELP There are two things I read on YELP, mentioning that the building was originally Charlie Chaplin's first actors studio until 1929 when it then became the first library in West Hollywood, inspiring the 1930's library theme. Another said it served as Charlie Chaplin's private studio. (One wrote it as Chaplain and another Chapin.) I haven't been able to find any sources for that bit of information, but that may explain the poster in the bar: https://s3-media1.fl.yelpcdn.com/bph...e0diruiQ/o.jpg I haven't been able to locate any vintage photos of the location. And I wonder what they were filming in there? . |
:previous: That's such a great little building Martin Pal. I'm surprised I've never heard of it before. [UNLESS I JUST FORGOT]
I found a tiny bit of information. "West Hollywood Library began service to the area (then unincorporated ) in 1913. The library was previously located at Sherman School, a cottage on Clark Street, a building on Westbourne Drive, and a building near the present site." [present site: 625 N. San Vicente Blvd.] from colapublib.org. Now I'm going to try and find a vintage photograph. :) |
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--No graffiti? --Added poles (unless that's just due to the camera's angle)? --They sliced off a foot or so of the "archway" and stuck in a railing? Do I win, e_r? Do I win? |
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As for photos, I only have a couple. One is my dad and another sailor sitting on a bench in Westlake Park (aka MacArthur) no doubt watching girls go by, (hopefully before he met my mother to be). The other is of my mother on her wedding day. She was an L.A. girl (moved here from Chicago at 3). The photo is on the steps of old St. Joseph's church on Los Angeles Street. You can see shadows of other people in the background. My parents said they were doing assembly-line weddings because it was Valentines' Day and so many servicemen were shipping out. I asked my dad why he wasn't in the picture and he said "Who do you think took it?" They eventually moved to a little burg in the sticks called Anaheim and I came along in 1960. |
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https://s26.postimg.org/sps8w0cs9/Lee100_L.jpg odinthor collection That's actor-to-be Jack Kruschen in back, working with him. And my dad was born in (St. Jo) Missouri, too! :cheers: |
Vine St Signage
My apologies if this has been posted before, but for fans of early fifties signage (and cars), this has a lot going for it.
https://farm1.staticflickr.com/886/4...55eca6c5_h.jpg HDL Closer https://farm1.staticflickr.com/891/3...5c1c7056_h.jpg Hmm...a drink at the Firefly or the Five Thirty? Looks like a couple of wise guys heading into the Firefly....think I'll do the Five Thirty, and check my coif in the mirror at the entry. The camera shop down the block (Mooney and something?) seems to be advertising a Jerry Lewis camera. :shrug: I'd so very much like to see these signs lit up in color! |
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Man, we could hold the Missouri equivalent of an Iowa Picnic (with or without the spats) My paternal grandmother was born a Lamm in Boonville.
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After they were married (1922), they took Grandpa's Model A and drove it alllll the way to Long Beach, California. They drove 200 miles each day. Grandma kept a travel diary in little notebooks and scraps of paper. My cousin has it, along with Grandma's treadle sewing machine. https://farm1.staticflickr.com/887/4...3041b848_b.jpg Grandpa's Model A by Kimberly, on Flickr |
Wow! I'd like to thank all the Missourians (who knew?) for their comments and stories!
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That's fascinating; your Dad working with Jack Kruschen! I remember him well from one of my favorite films, The Apartment, from 1960 when Mstimc and BillinGlendaleCA arrived! He was nominated for Supporting Actor for that role. I also remember Jack Kruschen as Zelda the Great's assistant on Batman. |
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